My windows program works fine, every thing works, but when I move the cursor over it, the cursor changes to an hour glass. How does windows determine if my program is busy? Can I force it to show an arrow?

Same thing happens to me.

well , that''s an easy one , windows does not determine which cursor to use , you have to say windows which one should be used , for specific info you should search in docs , it all depends on the language you''re programming in and stuff , well , have fun boys

did u guys screw up yer winclasses?

Probably when you registered your window class you didn''t set the hCursor member.

...
wndclass.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
...
RegisterClass(&wndclass);
...

-Mike

My cursor gets changed to hour glass, even though I specify IDC_ARROW when registering my window class. Here is a solution that works for me:

in my WndProc callback function, I set the desired cursor when I receive the WM_SETCURSOR message. Here is the code:

case WM_SETCURSOR: SetCursor( LoadCursor(NULL,IDC_ARROW) ); ShowCursor( TRUE );

IDC_ARROW can be replaced with your own cursor image (in which case you should specify your HINSTANCE in place of NULL), or you can use some of the other predefined ones, such as:

IDC_APPSTARTING
IDC_ARROW
IDC_CROSS
IDC_HAND
IDC_HELP
IDC_IBEAM

Thanks. I''ll try that.

did u guys screw up yer winclasses?

Yes.

Remember to set the cursor to NULL in your WinClass if you want to set your cursors manually during run time.

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